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The annual 4-H Issues Conference is a four-day gathering of top student leaders from across the Commonwealth. The conference is held annually during the fall. It is open to high school sophomores and juniors who display leadership potential and who will make a commitment to implement what they learn back home.

The Chautauqua performance of “The Last Shaker” will take place at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25, at Twin Oaks.

Frank and Mary Settles were planning to move from Louisville to Missouri, where they would purchase a farm and raise a family. But when Frank left Mary and the children at Pleasant hill to get the farm, he never returned. She taught at Pleasant Hill for 27 years and was the last member to live there. Janet Scott will portray Mary Settles. Scott is the co-founder of Lexington’s highly-acclaimed theatre group On the Verge.

The Louisville Farm to Table effort will present a full day of exploration into the world beyond farmers’ markets, Making Money Growing Food, this Thursday, Oct. 20, at St. Catharine Mother House near Springfield.

The program begins at 8:30 a.m., and will include many discussions of opportunities to ramp up your food growing farming operation. Topics will include: large volume buyers, beef and beyond, specialty products, public school food service, the wine market, MarketReady, “They Want What?” and others.

For a few minutes against Central High School, it looked like Henry County had the right formula.

The Wildcats put up a defensive stand that would lead to their first touchdown of the night. Later, they did something few other football teams in the state have managed to do — force Anthony “Ace” Wales to fumble the ball.

But in the end, it would not be enough, as the Wildcats fell to Central, 15-54.

“They have tremendous talent, as far as speed on the field,” Henry coach Jason Spencer said of the Yellowjackets.

Getting off to a slow start has become a pattern for the Eminence Warriors football team.

So far, it’s worked for them, and despite the slow start, Eminence ran away with a win against Paris High School on Oct. 14.

The win assures Eminence of a first- or second- place finish, depending only upon how their Friday night game against Frankfort goes. The win also assures Eminence of a homefield advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

One of the many benefits of belonging to the Henry County Chamber of Commerce is having an outlet to let people know what your business does or if a new product or skill has been added.

Mike Paris of M&K Construction now is available to fix those cracks that seem to come in your basement walls. Instead of expensive companies who advertise fixing these, you can call Mike at 269-0013 for an estimate to cure your problem.

Kentucky families continue to work hard to make ends meet in an uncertain economy while unemployment remains unacceptably high. That is why one of my top priorities is advancing positive, commonsense economic policies that will help the private sector grow and hire. Congress made progress last week by passing trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea with broad bipartisan support.